Social services specialist Jobs in San Diego, CA

Job Title

Sr. Specialist, Social Strategy

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group, Marketing Communications

General Summary

The Sr. Specialist, Social Strategy supports the social Strategy & Planning function by coordinating annual, quarterly, monthly, and event-based planning; gathering stakeholder and regional inputs; providing audience and platform insights; and helping translate stakeholder priorities into clear social recommendations. This person is the connective tissue between B2B strategy, B2C strategy, regional teams, editorial planning, and the Content and Operations functions.

Key Responsibilities

Planning & prioritization

• Support annual, quarterly, monthly, and Tier 1 event planning cycles.
• Maintain planning inputs, roadmap views, and stakeholder-facing planning materials.
• Help organize priorities across B2B, B2C, partner, product, regional, and executive needs.
• Document decisions, tradeoffs, and implications so the team can move from reactive intake to proactive programming.

Strategy support

• Support the B2B and B2C strategy leads with channel strategy/plans, audience playbooks, and campaign/event strategies.
• Help clarify channel roles, content priorities, and success measures for key initiatives.
• Prepare materials for strategy reviews, editorial council discussions, and planning checkpoints.
• Maintain playbooks, frameworks, and planning templates, so the team has reusable standards.
• Own social activity recap and key learnings reporting and socialize with planning leads and stakeholders to inform future strategy recommendations.

Regional enablement

• Support coordination of planning sessions with regional social teams and identify opportunities for localization.
• Surface regional needs, gaps, and examples back into the central team.
• Ensure regional teams have visibility into upcoming events, campaign priorities, channel best practices, platform shifts, and key learnings.
• Help ensure that global narratives are understandable, consistent, and adaptable for regional use.

This is an office based position located in San Diego, CA and is expected to comply with the company's onsite work policy. This is a U.S. based position and is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience. OR Associate's degree and 4+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience. OR High School Diploma or equivalent and 6+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.*Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master's = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration/Management, Communications, or related field.
• A strong planner who can organize ambiguity and turn scattered inputs into clear priorities.
• Comfortable with data, insights, and pattern recognition, but able to translate findings into practical recommendations rather than reports for reporting's sake.
• Strong written communication skills; able to draft planning materials, recaps, briefs, and decision documents that leadership and cross-functional partners can quickly understand.
• Collaborative and organized enough to work across Strategy, Content, Operations, regional teams, Comms, Product Marketing, and partner groups.
• Interested in social platforms and culture, but grounded in business priorities and brand strategy.
• Anticipates roadblocks and proactively works across teams to identify solutions and keep work moving.
• Eager to continually deepen their understanding of our technologies and translate their benefits into clear, audience-relevant ways.

Success Measures

• Planning cycles are clearer, earlier, and less reactive.
• Strategy leads have stronger inputs and fewer coordination bottlenecks.
• Monthly and quarterly plans are backed by audience, platform, and performance signals.
• Stakeholders understand social priorities, tradeoffs, channel roles, and timing.
• Regions have better visibility into global plans and clearer ways to activate them locally.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :

$41.92 - $62.88

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.